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Ashwell Buildings and Antiquities Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Appendix C Ashwell Buildings and Antiquities 2nd Edition David Short Ashwell Village Museum 2020 Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Appendix C Copyright © Ashwell Village Museum 2020 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanically, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the author. Published by: Ashwell Village Museum 11 Swan Street Ashwell Hertfordshire SG7 5NY ISBN: 2 Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Appendix C Contents Preface 1st edition 4 Preface 2nd edition 5 Acknowledgements 6 Introduction 7 List of Buildings Angell’s Meadow 9 Ashwell Street 9 Back Street 9 Bacons Yard 10 Church Lane 10 Church Path 10 Claybush Road formerly Bygrave Road 10 Fordham close 10 Gardiner's Lane 10 Green Lane 11 High Street 11 Hodwell 22 Kingsland Way 24 Lucas Lane 24 Mill Street 25 Newnham Way 30 Partridge Hill 30 The Rickyard 30 Silver Street 30 Springhead 31 Station Road 32 Swan Street 33 West End 34 Outskirts of the village 38 List of Antiquities and other sites of interest 41 Glossary of Architectural Words 44 Note on Legislation affecting Listed Buildings 45 Further Reading 46 3 Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Appendix C Preface To the first edition This list of buildings and other things of special interest in Ashwell is the result of a working party set up by the Parish Council in response to a request from the District Council to recommend revisions to the list of Listed Buildings which was originally prepared by the former Ministry of Housing and Local Government in the 1950s. It was widely recognised that a number of un-listed houses of definite architectural value in the village were worthy of listing, while others already listed merited up-grading. During the meetings of the working party a great deal of information which had not hitherto been recorded was collected together from recent research and local knowledge, especially from Messrs. John Bray and Albert Sheldrick, founders of the Village Museum. After the revised list had been submitted to the District Council it seemed a pity to let this wealth of knowledge to mature in some filing system where it was not easily available to people interested in the village. It was therefore agreed by the Parish Council and approved at an open meeting of the Ashwell Association that the material should be published as a booklet with two principal modifications, namely the omission of the names of house owners and occupiers, and the omission of the Ministry grades (both existing and as revised by the working party). The opportunity has been taken to expand some of the information and to add details of new buildings. It should be emphasised that what follows here is not the statutory list of Historic Buildings and has no official standing but, as with the Ashwell Village Appraisal, it is hoped that it will be of use and interest to the inhabitants of the village and those concerned with its rich architectural heritage. Corrections and additions for a future edition would be welcome. "How these curiosities would be quite forgott did not such idle fellowes as I putt them down". John Aubrey, Brief Lives. 4 Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Appendix C Preface To the second edition As part of the working of the Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Working Group it was decided to take another look at this list to see if it could still be of use in making planning decisions and to revise where necessary. This has been done and once again it has been decided to publish the results. There are some changes in the way this edition has been set out and the information that is in it. Firstly the detail of properties, where it has been possible to identify the correct building/site, farm the 1829 Rate Survey that was undertaken in the parish.1 This survey lists the owners of properties, the tenants, a description of the property and the rental value. This latter figure was used for basing the rates on and continued in use until the 1980s when first the poll tax and then the council tax superseded it. Secondly the description of the listed building with the grade which is published by Historic England.2 Thirdly there are Additional informations that were made in 1979 and today. These are from local knowledge and have no legal status at all. Reference is made to the sketches of Charlotte Morice the daughter of the Rector Henry Morice. These sketches, with other of local settlements, Cambridge and Prague were sold to raise money to found a girls’ school. This became known as Mrs Ratcliffe’s School, Ratcliffe being her marriage name. the school was closed when the board school, now Ashwell Primary School, was opened in 1878. Most of the sketches are in a book in HALS where they can be viewed.3 The second section lists other sites of interest including Scheduled sites in the Parish. These are areas which Historic England considers to be of great importance and need to have some form of protection. Where the site is an arable field the farmer may be restricted at to how deep they can plough. It will also restrict whether people can go and dig holes in the field. It is hoped that this booklet will help inform parish councillor and other planners when they make decisions on particular buildings or sites. It is also hope that it will be of general interest. David Short Ashwell 2020 1 Survey of the Farmsteads, Private Dwellings-houses, Shops, Cottages, etc. etc at Ashwell, Hertfordshire made August 1829 editor David Short, Ashwell 2 Historic England, The Listing https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/ 3 Sketches of Ashwell, 1830 – 1850 by Charlotte Morice HALS Ref. DE/X916 5 Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Appendix C Acknowledgements First edition Members of the Parish Council Working Party on Listed Buildings Liz Moynihan, Chairman Gurney Sheppard Chairman of the Parish Council John Bray Philip Coverdale Phil Crump Howard Day Albert Sheldrick David Sherlock David Short Edited and Produced by David and Heather Sherlock Cover Desiged by Colin Barker Typing and Layout by Eileen Higham Printing and Binding by Inprint of Luton (Designers & Printers) Ltd. Enquiries Ashwell Association c/o Little Garth Mill Street Ashwell Near Baldock, Hertfordshire. Second Edition 6 Ashwell Neighbourhood Plan Appendix C Introduction The Physical Setting Ashwell is a thriving parish of 4,108 acres in North Hertfordshire, on the borders of Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. with a population of about 2,000 (2011) it is the largest of a group of villages situated in a rural area of some 45 square miles, bounded on the west by the A1 on the east by the A14 and on the south by the A505. The nearest small towns are Baldock (4 miles south-west) and Royston (6 miles east). Visually this is an extremely attractive area. Approaching Ashwell from the south or west one passes through open arable land and on to the steep north-facing scarp of Newnham and Claybush Hills. These provide a sudden wide view over the valley where the river Cam has its sources, to the hills of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire. Ashwell, with its magnificent church, nestles among trees immediately below, stretching along the spring line. Approaching from the north and east the low-lying pastures, trees and hedgerows provide a green contrast with the unspoilt horizon of the chalk hills to the south. In the northern part of the parish the land is low-lying and gently undulating, formed on chalk marl. Southwards the land rises quite steeply to over 300ft above sea level in the middle chalk escarpment, the Eastern Heights a north-easterly extension of the Chilterns. Boulder clay, deposited at the end of the Ice Age, caps the highest point, Claybush Hill (100m). At the base of the escarpment are outcrops of Totternhoe stone, a well-jointed chalk, which produces springs from water gathered in the porous chalk. Much of the older part of the village stretches along the lower slope where water could be reached fairly easily from shallow wells. All the soils in Ashwell are alkaline. That on the escarpment is light, easily worked and drains quickly. It contrasts with those on Claybush Hill and on the chalk marl which are quite wet and heavy. Historical Background From early times the present parish of Ashwell has been a focus for settlements. In 2005 a Neolithic (2,700 -2,000 BC) henge was excavated near the corner of Station Road and Ashwell Street. In the Bronze Age (c. 1800 to c. 800 BC) the presence of a number of burial barrows in the southern half of the parish suggest that there must have been settlement in the area. During the Iron Age (c. 800 BC to 100 AD) Arbury Banks was built and occupied. However the mani settlement in this period was probably at Buttway, half way to Ashwell End. During the Roman period there was a shrine at Ashwell End to the Ashwell goddess Senuna. Having a shrine there infers that there would be services to feed and bed the visiting pilgrims. To date the area has not been investigated thoroughly to see where exactly this settlement was. Not far from the shrine was a villa with a possible bath house. There was also a Roman villa on the south facing slope of Partridge Hill not far from Arbury Banks. Ongoing excavation suggest that there was also a religious site in the Roman period south of the springs.
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